Originally Posted by deafbajagal

Don't throw rotten tomatoes at me for my opinion . My humble opinion is that there needs to be more research on this modality. Also I think there is a huge misconception about what cue speech is. Some who are in the oral group seems to feel that cueing has too much gesturing and sign-like movements that it can't be truly "oral"; those who are in the signing group feel that cueing is too oral-like (with the phonical focus on spoken English). I learned cue speech in case I met someone who use cueing exclusively - I wanted to be able to communicate with that person. But in reality, cueing is supposed to be (in my opinion, again) used as a tool for teaching literacy (such as spelling, sounding out words for reading, etc.). I don't think it was meant to be used teach speech or to be used as a communcation modality. An example of a reading program (intended for deaf and hard of hearing students) that could be used with cue speech is the Stevenson Reading Program. I would seriously consider using cueing with this reading program to see if it would benefiit my students...but only as a tool for teaching decoding skills.